Table of Contents Foreword Introduction About the book About the author Contact information Chapter 1: What is FireMonkey?

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1 Table of Contents Foreword... Page 10 Introduction... Page 11 About the book... Page 11 About the author... Page 11 Contact information... Page 11 Chapter 1: What is FireMonkey?... Page 12 Chapter 2: How to use the FireMonkey components... Page 13 Section 1: Getting Started... Page 13 Section 2: New FireMonkey project... Page 15 FireMonkey desktop application (Multi Device Application)... Page 15 Using the Multi Device Designer (Fire UI)... Page 17 Form inheritance with the Multi Device Designer... Page 20 Reverting to inherited settings... Page 21 Creating a platform-specific event handler with the Multi-Device Designer... Page 22 Section 3: A first FMX-program (analog clock)... Page 23 Section 4: Selected FireMonkey components... Page 29 TButton (with Trimming)... Page 29 TEdit (without PasswordChar)... Page 29 TExpander... Page 30 TForm (furthermore with caption)... Page 30 TFrame... Page 30 TPanel... Page 30 TRectangle... Page 31 TCheckbox, TRadioButton (IsChecked)

2 ... Page 31 TGroupBox mit TRadioButtons... Page 31 TSwitch... Page 31 TImage... Page 32 TImageControl... Page 33 TImageViewer... Page 33 TImageViewer (to use with Livebindings Designer)... Page 33 TLabel (new property FontColor)... Page 37 TPathLabel... Page 37 TPath... Page 37 TImageList (not available - but compensation possible)... Page 38 TListBox (no TCheckListbox, but ShowCheckboxes)... Page 41 All Components (except the form)... Page 51 Several Components (Properties with additional type-qualifying)... Page 51 TMenuItem (without ImageIndex)... Page 51 TMainMenu (Handling MAC Menus)... Page 52 TMemo (CaretPosition, no Modified, FindNext-replacement)... Page 53 TDropTarget (how drag & drop works in FireMonkey)... Page 60 TRichEdit (not available - but possible for replacement via 3rd-party)... Page 62 TPageControl (Not available - but replacement available)... Page 62 TStringGrid (works different)... Page 62 TGrid (Image and other elements in the Grid)... Page 67 TStringGrid-alternative (TMSFMXGrid)... Page 68 THeader (not sections, but items)... Page 68 THeaderControl (is not available under FireMonkey)... Page 68 2

3 TProgressBar (not "position" but value)... Page 68 TTabControl (no Ownerdraw)... Page 69 TTrackbar (helpful property "tracking")... Page 69 TSpeedButton (without Bitmap)... Page 69 TStatusbar (a way to compensate the missing "Panels")... Page 69 MessageDlg (e.g. not directly usable with mtwarning)... Page 69 Section 5: The FireMonkey Style-Designer... Page 70 a) Using the Styles Editor... Page 70 b) Styles in FireMonkey - an overview... Page 73 c) How to convert VCL Styles to FireMonkey Styles... Page 76 d) Using FireMonkey Styles... Page 77 e) Understanding FireMonkey-Styles... Page 78 Chapter 3: Tips and tricks for Cross-Platform Development... Page 81 Section 1: starting other programs... Page 81 Section 2: Get the program directory and program data directory... Page 82 Section 3: Catch to the program passed start-up parameters... Page 85 Section 4: "Hello World" - Multilingual programs and new markets... Page 89 Section 5: Apply sandboxing and Entitlements properly... Page 93 Section 6: Using MAC APIs (POSIX, CORE and Cocoa) in Delphi... Page 97 Chapter 4: Requirements for Cross-Platform Development... Page 102 Section 1: Setting up Windows PC and MAC PC... Page 102 Section 2: Enabling MAC OSX Platform... Page 105 Section 3: Provisioning and deployment (MAC)... Page Submission to the APPLE App Store... Page How to create a.dmg file for distribution outside the Apple App Store 3

4 ... Page How to create your own setup package with the Application Developer ID / Installer... Page 115 a) Hot to request a Developer ID certificate and an Application Developer Installer ID... Page 116 b) Working with the code-signing tool and Package Maker... Page 118 Chapter 5: Cross-Plattform development with Linux... Page 122 Section 1: Setting up Windows and Linux-PC... Page 123 Section 2: Enabling the Linux-Platform... Page 127 Section 3: Provisioning and deployment (Linux)... Page 129 Section 4: A first Linux-Console-Application... Page 130 Section 5: Linux-Server-Console-Application and Client-Application... Page 132 Section 6: Create an Application as Service (Daemon)... Page 139 Section 7: Delphi units for Linux... Page 141 Chapter 6: Working with Graphics in FireMonkey... Page FireMonkey TBitmap versus Windows TBitmap... Page TBitmapData instead of ScanLine for bitmap manipulation... Page How to change the alpha channel of a TBitmap... Page How to draw on the canvas of a bitmap... Page How to turn graphics, flip, invert or color to gray... Page How to draw a bitmap scaled... Page 150 Chapter 7: 3D-Programming... Page 151 Section 1: Overview... Page D-Objects... Page Cameras... Page Screen Projections... Page 151 4

5 4. Rotations... Page Light... Page Materials... Page 154 Section 2: The 3D Coordinate System... Page 156 Section 3: 3D-Application "Atomic Model"... Page 160 Section 4: 3D-Application "Solar Model"... Page 165 Chapter 8: Animations, Transitions and Effects... Page 168 Chapter 9: Sending and receiving messages with the TMessageManager... Page 172 Section 1: Simple Messaging-Demo... Page 173 Section 2: Enhanced Messaging-Demo... Page 175 Chapter 10: Useful third-party components for FireMonkey... Page TMS-Components... Page Report-generator: FastReport FMX... Page RemObjects-Application Framework (Hydra)... Page Other components... Page 181 Chapter 11 How to - tips & tricks for FMX... Page 182 R1... Get the display resolution?... Page 182 R2... Check whether the Escape, Ctrl or Alt key is pressed... Page 182 R3... Use folder names under Windows and MAC properly... Page 184 R4... Use search-mask for "all files" in Windows and MAC OS X properly... Page 186 R5... Avoid looping symlink folders (Alias)... Page 186 R6... In which situations file symlinks functions play a role otherwise... Page 187 R7... Determine the control under the mouse position... Page 188 R8... Find out on which MAC OS X operating system the program is running... Page 188 R9 Get the current user name in Mac OS X / Linux / Windows 5

6 ... Page 190 R10 Send files as an attachment of an with the system mail program... Page 190 R11 Provide the user with help-files under Win & MAC... Page 192 R12... Drag and drop text from external source (eg browser) to a TEdit box... Page 194 R13... Store additional information in standard objects... Page 195 R14 Using ActiveControl... Page 195 R15 Replace OnDrawItem event of the ListBox from VCL with the OnPainting event of the TListBoxItems... Page 196 R16 Load Bitmap from resource file (for retina display)... Page 197 R17 Swap items in a listbox... Page 199 R18 Swap items in a Listbox via Drag & Drop... Page 200 R19 Using FMX functions in a VCL application via DLL... Page 200 R20 Draw text in TGrid right or centered... Page 206 R21 Draw text in TStringGrid right or centered... Page 208 R22 Working with the "visible" property of controls... Page 209 R23 Prevent unintended shortening of TLabel text... Page 209 R24... How to show a pop-up menu at a special position... Page 210 R25 Determine the document directory... Page 211 R26 Improve the font quality (especially on Windows)... Page 211 R27 Select a folder with a dialog... Page 211 R28... Let a column in a string grid occupy the remaining space... Page 212 R29... Create missing components with Frames... Page 213 R30... Moving controls at runtime in the form... Page 217 Chapter 12: Outlook... Page 220 Index... Page 221 6

7 Index D-Programming, 151 3rd party MAC Developer Application, 110 3rd party Mac Developer Installer, 110 A ActiveControl, 195 Add ListBoxItem, 42 Add Platform, 105 AlClient, 31 All files, 186 Allowdrag, 200 Alpha-channel, 144; 145 Ambient, 154 App Store, 93 Apple Developer ID, 111 AppleShowAllFiles, 83 Application Loader, 111 Application.ProcessMessages, 57 AutoSize, 209 AutoTranslate, 91 B BeginScene, 146 BeginUpdate, 199 Bindable Members, 34 Bitmap Style Designer, 77 BitmapScale, 34 Bitmap-Style Designer, 73 Blank Application, 16 C CaretPosition, 53 CertifacteSigningRequest, 117 Certificate, 115 CFRelease, 100 CFRetain, 100 CFString, 99 CFStringCreateWithCharactersNoCopy, 99 CFUserNotifiationDisplayAlert, 99 CheckSpelling, 54 ClaBlack, 51 ClaRed, 51 ClColorName, 51 ClearEdit, 44 Clipboard, 53 7

8 COCOA, 97 Codesign, 118 ColCount, 68 ControlType, 29 CopyToClipboard, 53 COREAPI, 98 Custom Style, 70 CutToClipBoard, 53 D DefaultManager, 172 DefaultRowHeight, 68 DeleteChildren, 215 Deployment, 109 DesignVisible, 209 Developer Application ID, 115 Developer ID Installer, 115 Developer ID Intermediate Certificate, 117 DevExpress, 181 Diffuse, 154 Direct2D, 211 Disk Image from Folder, 113 Disk Utility, 113 DisplayCount, 182 Drag and drop of text, 195 DrawBitmap, 150 DrawCellRight, 207 DriveDelim, 184 E Emissive, 154 EndScene, 146 EndUpdate, 199 Entitlement List, 94 Event handler, 22 F Fast Reports, 180 FaSymlink, 186 Fillelipse, 146 Fillrect, 146 Filltext, 146 FindNext-Replacement, 54 FindReplaceDemo, 54 FindStyleResource, 25 FireMonkey bitmap, 144 Fliphorizontal, 147 FlipVertical, 147 FMX.SpellChecker, 54 8

9 FocusedLink, 74; 76 FollowLink, 187 FontColor, 37 FormKeyDown, 30 Frames, 30 FullScreen, 30 G Gatekeeper, 115 GetHomepath, 190 Gethostname, 97 Glyph, 69 Gnostice, 180 GridGetvalue, 67 H HasFormat, 53 Help Workshop, 192 HighSpeed, 150 HorzAlign, 206 HotLink, 74 Hydra, 181 I ICL, 179 ImageEn, 181 ImgByFilter, 147 Invert an image, 147 IsASymlinkfile, 188 IsChecked, 31; 52 IsControlKeyPressed, 183 IsPressed, 29 IsShiftKeyPressed, 183 ITC-Mobile, 111 Items, 41 Items.Exchange, 199 IwPlace, 33 K Keychain Access, 110 KeyEvent, 30 L Language, 193 ListItems, 41 ListStyle, 41 LiveBindings-Expert, 35 Lshorizontal, 41 LunaStyle, 78 9

10 Lybcgunwind.1.0.dlyb, 109 M MAC OS platform, 17 MAC, 102 MacApi.Appkit.pas, 100 MacApi.CoreFoundation.pas, 98 MacOS, 109 MAP, 145 MaRead, 145; 145 MaReadWrite, 145; 145 MarshaledAString, 81 Mask, 186 Master View, 18 Master, 18 MaterialBackSource, 154 MaterialShaftSource, 154 MaWrite, 145 MCL, 179 Menu, 52 MessageDlg, 69 Mirror a graphic, 147 MouseScaling, 33 MouseTracking, 33 Multi-Device Application, 15 Multi-Device-Designer, 17 Multi-monitor systems, 210 MultiResBitmap, 32 MultiScreenCopy, 150 N New markets, 89 NormalLink, 74 NSApplicationDelegate, 85 NSHost, 97 NSObject, 100 NSObjectClass, 100 NSString, 100 NSStringClass, 100 NSWorkspace, 100 O ObjectAtPoint, 188 Occupy the free space in the grid, 212 OnChange, 53 OnChangeTracking, 53 OnCreateCustomEditor, 66 OnDragDrop, 200 OnDrawColumnBackground, 65 10

11 OnDrawColumnCell, 64; 65 OnDrawColumnHeader, 65 OnDrawItem", 44 OnDrawTab, 69 OneDrive, 179 OnFocusChanged, 195 OnGetImageIndex, 68 OnPaint, 45 OnPainting, 45 OnViewPortPositionChanged, 66 OS X Desktop, 20 OwnerDraw, 44 P Package Maker, 119 PaperSketch, 201 ParamStr, 82 PAServer, 102 PAServer19.0.pkg, 102 PasteFromClipboard, 53 PathDelim, 184 PathSep, 184 PixelFormat, 144 PlatformDefault, 22 PlatformService, 53 Pop-up menu, 210 POSIX, 97 PressedLink, 74 Program directory, 82 Projection, 151 Provisioning, 110 Q Quality of the fonts, 211 R REDO, 57 Resource, 78 Resources and Images, 198 Retina display, 197 Revert to Inherited, 21 Rotate an image, 147 Rotate, 147 RotationAngle, 25 RotationCenter, 157 RowCount, 64 S Sandboxing, 93 11

12 ScanLine, 144 ScreenDisplays, 182 ScreenService, 199 SDK, 105 SelectDirectory, 211 SetPixelFormat, 144 SetStyleFromFile, 78 Shader filter, 147 SharedWorkspace, 101 ShowCheckBoxes, 41 ShowFullScreenIcon, 30 ShowHeader, 63 ShowHint, 29 Specular, 154 Spellchecking, 54 Start another program, 81 Startup parameter, 88 StayPressed, 29 StoreInForm, 92 StretchDraw, 150 StringColumn, 63 Style, 73 StyledSettings, 31; 37; 73 StyleElements, 73 StyleLookup, 31 StyleName, 31 SubscribeToMessage, 174 SupportsPlatformService, 54 Swap two items, 199 System.UITypes, 51 T TabControlStyle, 69 TabItemStyle, 69 TaCenter, 65 TagFloat, 195 TagObject, 195 TagString, 195 Tagstring, 197 TAlignLayout, 31; 51 TAlphaColorRec, 51 TAlphaColors, 51 TBitmap, 144 TBitmapAnimation, 171 TBitmapData, 144 TBitmapLink, 74 TBitmapLinks, 74 TBitmapListAnimation, 171 TButton, 29 12

13 TButtonStyleObject, 74; 80 TCalendar, 30 TCategoryPanel, 30 TCheckListBox, 41 TColorAnimation, 170 TColorAnimations,, 76 TColorkeyAnimation, 171 TControl3D, 78 TDirectory.Exists, 187 TDragOperation, 194; 60 TDropTarget, 60 TEdit, 30 TExpander, 30 TextSettings, 37 Texture, 154 TFile.exists, 187 TFile.GetAttributes, 187 TForm, 30 TGlowEffect, 76 TGlyphColumn, 68 TGradientAnimation, 170 TGroupBox, 31 THeaderItems, 68 TImage, 32 TImageColums, 67 TImageControl, 33 TImageViewer, 33; 33 TInsertOption, 57 TLabel, 37 TLang, 89; 89 TLight, 152 TLightMaterialsource, 152 TListBox, 41 TMapAccess, 145 TMaterialBook, 154 TMemo, 51 TMenuItem, 51 TMessageManager, 172 TMS Pack for FireMonkey, 179 TMSFMXGrid, 68 TMSFMXNativeMacPDFLib, 180 TMSFMXNativeNSView, 180 TMsgDlgType, 69 TOSVersion, 189 TPanel, 30 TPath, 211 TPath.GetMoviesPath, 211 TPath.GetPicturesPath, 211 TPathAnimation,

14 TPlatformServices, 54 TPlotGrid, 215 TProgressBar, 68 TRadioButton, 31 TRectangle, 76 TRectAnimation, 171 TRichEdit, 62 TRichView, 181 Trimming, 209; 29 TScreen, 182 TSpeedButton, 69 TStatusbar, 69 TStringColumn, 63 TStringGrid, 62 TStyleManager, 78 TSwitch, 31 TTabControl, 62; 69 TTabItem, 69 TtCharacter", 29 TTextAlign, 65 TTMSFMXGrid, 179 TTMSFMXGridExcelIO, 179 TTMSFMXGridPDFIO, 179 TTMSFMXGridRTFIO, 179 TTMSFMXRichEditor, 179; 62 TTMSFMXRichEditorEditToolbar, 179 TTMSFMXRichEditorFormatToolbar, 179 TtNone", 29 TTrackbar, 69 TtWord",, 29 Two-letter language code, 90 U UNMAP, 145 UsingDesignCamera, 151 V ValuesAsColor, 148 ValuesAsFloat, 148 ValuesAsPoint, 148 ValuesAsTexture, 148 W Windows PC, 102 WordWrap, 31 WorkAreaRect, 182 WWDR Intermediate Certificate,